The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.

Without resistance you can do nothing

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.